[DECtalk] higher notes

Jayson Smith ratguy at bellsouth.net
Fri Feb 16 20:42:31 EST 2007


Hello,
While I have heard files of Microsoft Mike and Mary singing, I have no idea
how that was done. Unfortunately, the modern trend seems to be leaning
toward making voices based on actual recorded human speech. AT&T Natural
Voices are one such system. As far as I know, there's absolutely no way to
get these voices to sing, period. The only way would be to have the voices
speak the text, then use a vocoder to make them sing, but even then, the
durations couldn't be corrected to fit the song. Personally, I think the
modern human voices sound more human, but are somehow not as pleasing at
least to my ears as synthesizers that generate synthetic speech, such as
DECtalk, L&H, etc. The way a human-based synthesizer works is that a human
goes into a studio and probably spends hours recording thousands of things,
then they take that and make a voice out of it. That's how the ModelTalker
project works. You download their software and record 1649 utterances
consisting mostly of short sentences and phrases, some of which are quite
funny. Then a voice is generated from those recordings.
Jayson.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Balfe" <taz0801 at charter.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] higher notes


> how do you get microsoft sapi voices to sing?  i know this is not dectalk
> but it would be nice to here the real speak voices sing.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] higher notes
>
>
> > Hi,
> > As far as I know, there's no way to do it. Maybe you're confusing
DECtalk
> > with Vocalwriter, which does have a wider pitch range. If you're sure
it's
> > DECtalk, then the only way I know of to simulate higher notes is to have
> > DECtalk actually sing a lower note and then speed it up. This is one of
> > the
> > major drawbacks to DECtalk singing, as far as I'm concerned. You can
> > simulate one octave of lower range with a certain command, not sure what
> > it
> > is now.
> > Jayson.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Paul Balfe" <taz0801 at charter.net>
> > To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:10 PM
> > Subject: [DECtalk] higher notes
> >
> >
> > how do I make dectalk go past 5th octave c?  i've seen it done in some
> > songs
> > i've listened to.
> >
> >
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